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"The investigation to date has found that transactions regularly moved
between accounts and that funds believed to be in excess of segregation
requirements in the commodities segregated accounts were used to fund other daily activities of MF Global. In the past, such transfers were in amounts
of less than $50 million, but as liquidity demands increased and could not be met from internal sources, much larger amounts were used, apparently with the assumption that funds would be restored by the end of the day. By
Wednesday, October 26, as the result of increasing demands for funds or
collateral throughout MF Global, funds did not return as anticipated. As
these withdrawals occurred, a lack of intraday accounting visibility
existed, caused in part by the volume of transactions being executed...
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Amanda Lang was a wonderful member of the Opednews team, and the first volunteer editor, for a good number of years being a senior editor. She passed away summer 2014.

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